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1895. 



PREFATORY 



Life is too short and time too long for engaging in wordy expla- 
nations. This manual is not intended for an advertisement, though 
such should become one of its incidents. It is written because there 
is something to write about which stirs the heart of every citizen of 
Rock Hill with pardonable pride, and because of the desire to perma- 
nently record facts and figures which tell of an enterprising and 
progressive people, and which will act as a stimulus for the future. 
It is synoptical and summary. Finally, it is written from a standpoint 
of Truth ; and, while it is desired to present its subject matter in as 
neat a garb as possible, nothing will be stated which cannot be 
readily verified. 



Zo Ibon- MtUiam C. Ibutcbieon, 

mayor of the city of rock hili,. 

My Dear Sir : 

This little sketch is dedicated to you, as a tribute to your public- 
spirited liberality; in acknowledgment of your generous assistance in 
bringing this work to a successful issue ; and as an expression of 
personal esteem and friendship. 

WILLIAM J. CHERRY. 
October, 1895. 



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The wonderful story of Rock Hill's progress has many times been 
attempted, but all of the truth about this wide-awake, thrifty and pro- 
gressive little city has never been told. The limited compass of this 
sketch forbids the writer to do more than touch upon salient features. 
Passing undaunted through the thick darkness of financial distress 
that settled as a pall over all this country for the last few years, Rock 
Hill turns now to the promises of the morning and greets with joy the 
gray streak which betokens the coming sunshine of a cloudless day. 
She is prepared to make good her claim that she is the ideal city of 
South Carolina. Situated among the foot-hills and fertile valleys of 
upper Carolina, in the great Piedmont Belt ; with a climate that is 
salubrious in summer and bracing in winter ; with water that is pure 
freestone, limpid and cold; with good health, good schools and elegant 
church edifices ; with macadamized streets, sidewalks paved with 
granite, street cars, electric lights, and all of the other conveniences 
of a first-class modern town; with her industries and enterprises, 
wonderful in their number and variety for a city so young ; with her 
highly favored location in the midst of a productive farming section, 
owned by an intelligent and prosperous agricultural class ; and, not 
the least of all, with a population of cultured, refined, home loving 
and hospitable people, ever ready to bid the visitor and the stranger 
welcome ; with all of these attractions and numerous others which 
need not be particularized, she stands squarely in the lead among her 
sister cities and towns of the State, and presents claims to all who are 
seeking an ideal home which are scarcely equalled and not excelled. 

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Ibietorical anb fiDunicipaL 

Rock Hill's natal star twinkled into sight in the 3'ear 1870, the 
town then becoming a corporate existence. Its first executive head 
consisted of the following officers : John R. Allen, Intendant ; J. M. 
Ivy, Dr. T. L. Johnson, M. W. Russell and John Ratterree, Wardens. 
The last named warden is the only member of the original town 
council now living. 

The original charter was a crude and simple affair, and was soon 
found inadequate to the demands of a thriving and growing town. It 
was amended and enlarged b}- the State Legislature from time to time 
to meet the exigencies of the changing conditions. It became thus of 
a fragmentary and patch-work character, and was not long to be tol- 
erated in this condition. In the year 1892, the young town, having 
grown into a stalwart municipality of several thousand souls, decided 
to put aside the ways of childhood and to apply for sisterhood into 
the galaxy of South Carolina cities. So that, in December of that 
year, the Legislature of the State granted to Rock Hill a full and com- 
plete city charter, conferring the most liVjeral and ample governmental 
privileges, powers and functions, and changing the name of the 
corporation to that of "The City of Rock Hill." 

The first City Council elected under the City Charter was composed 
of the following persons : Dr. John W. Fewell, Mayor ; Ed. E. Poag, 
Edward R. Avery, A. J. Thompson, John J. Waters, W. J. Irby and 
W. H. Wylie, Aldermen. 

The present City Council is composed of W. C. Hutchison, Mayor; 
W. G. Reid, John J. Waters, R. Lee Kerr, E. R. Avery, L. M. Davis 
and J. A. Green, Aldermen. 

The Police Department is at present officered as follows : F. W. 
Culp, Chief; J. F. Doby, L. D. Wilkinson, A. L. Wallace and J. M. 
Devinney, Assistants. 

These gentlemen who administer the affairs of the city government 

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are young men of sterling iDUsiness qualities, who are always alive to 
the interests of the corporation. 

The sanitary laws of the State affecting cities and incorporated 
towns are rigidly enforced, and the following efficient Board of Health 
is in charge of the Health Department : Dr. W, J. White, President ; 
Dr. T. L. Cornwell, Health Officer ; W. A. Fewell, Secretary and 
Treasurer; the other members being T. L. Johnson and W. L. Hall. 

Rock Hill has always been fortunate in having good men at the 
head of public affairs, and this has been an important factor in her 
progress. In politics, as in everything else affecting the city's wel- 
fare, the people have never been divided, and in all elections, it is 
merely a choice between men and the selecting of the best men 
for office. 

But affairs of local government have not absorbed the attention of 
the citizen of Rock Hill, and a few facts will serve to show that he 
has been active along other lines. Could the men who christened 
"Rock Hill" when an infant cross-roads village a few years ago, have 
foreseen the Rock Hill of to-day, they might have thought the name 
too insignificant. 

NAME. 

The little incident to which this city owes its name will probably 
not be devoid of interest. About the time the Charlotte and South 
Carolina Railway had been completed through this section, in or near 
the year 1852, a party of gentlemen, residing in the vicinity of the 
station to be here located, had met and were discussing the matter of 
a name. There was at that time an immense quantity of flint rock 
imbedded on the hill which is the present site of Mr. John Ratterree's 
residence. The hint was caught from this circumstance ; some one of 
the party proposed that the station be called "Rock Hill," and the 
name was adopted. 

The name is an illustration of the philosophy of 'that which we 
call a rose by another name.* A name is only valuable for what it 
represents, and Rock Hill stands for all that is set down on these 

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pages, and more. It is the naine ty wliicli an enterprising corporatioti 
has become known — a name now much used on all sides— and no Rock 
Hillian could be induced to give it up. It is his talisman. 

LOCATION. 

Rock Hill is situated in the northern part of the State of South 
Carolina, in York County ; eighty- four miles from Columbia, and 
twenty-five miles from Charlotte, N. C, with which points it is con- 
nected by rail. The city stands 6b8 feet above tide water, and is the 
highest point on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad 
between Augusta and Charlotte It possesses excellent advantages in 
its railroad facilities; the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta, and Ohio 
River and Charleston Railroads intersecting in the heart of the city. 
The great Seaboard System is discussing the project of connecting 
with Rock Hill by the Georgia, Carolina and Northern, and no doubt 
such a connection will be effected at no distant day. This last named 
road, extending from Atlanta, Ga.. to Portsmouth, Va., is already near 
enough to materially affect freight rates and to become an important 
connection for travelling. 

Here is what was said of Rock Hill's advantages of location by a 
disinterested writer seven 3'ears ago : "With direct communication 
north, east, south and west, contiguous to inexhaustable timber and 
mineral wealth, and located in the heart of a farming country capable 
of growing the greatest diversity of crops known in any one climate, 
this favored town offers all that could be desired for manufacturing 
purposes. Already, independent of all other considerations, only a 
little time is asked to make it a great distributing point." 

RAPID PROGRESS. 

Captain W. L. Roddey, one of Rock Hill's leading citizens, is the 
owner of the first plat of the territory which is the present site of Rock 
Hill. This original plat is neatly framed and well preserved, and is an 
interesting relic. It was made in November, 1851, by Deputy Surveyor 
John Roddey, father of Captain Roddey, and was in anticipation of the 



coming of the Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad, which had been 
previously projected. It provided for twenty-three lots along what is 
now Main Street, the whole of the district then surveyed being a 
woodland where birds chattered and built their nests unmolested. 

When the Charlotte and South Carolina (now the Charlotte, 
Columbia and Augusta) Railroad was completed through this section, 
in 1852, not a single business house marked the present site of Rock 
Hill. Up to 1870 Rock Hill amounted to only an insignificant village, 
with the advantage of a railroad station and other slight conveniences. 
When incorporated in 1870, its population was 273; in 1880, its popu- 
lation had increased to 809 ; at the end of the next decade it had 
reached 2,781; and in 189T, by the town census, it was 3,804. The 
assessed valuation of property for taxation in 1887 was $451,119; in 
1890 it was 1959,401 ; in 1891 it was $1,222,276, an increase of over 171 
per cent, in four years. 

ROCK HILL OF TO=DAY. 

Ihe present population of Rock Hill is 5,500; the present taxable 
value of Rock Hill property is $1,255,460; her yearly business amounts 
to $3,500,000 ; she handles annually, on an average, 18,000 bales of 
cotton ; she has in operation three cotton factories (spinning and 
weaving) representing a capital of $435,000.00, and two more in process 
of erection, which will employ a capital of $325,000.00, aggregating in 
cotton manufacturing, a capital of $760,000.00; a buggy, carriage and 
wagon factory, with authorized capital of $75,000.00; a tobacco factory 
with an authorized capital of $40,000.00; a door, sash and blind factory; 
a canning factory; an electric light plant, with arc and incandescent 
lights; a town site company; a street railway and water works com- 
pany; machine shops, etc. 

The weekly pay-roll from Rock Hill's manufactories amounts to 
more than $6,000. 

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fiDinerale- 

Mining in this section has received little attention ; but to this 
wonderful story of growth and prosperity a new phase will be added 
when the mineral wealth of this section is begun to be developed. 
Immense quantities of iron ore are imbedded in the earth in this 
vicinity, containing not a trace of sulphur or phosphorus, and assay- 
ing 62 to 69 per cent, of magnetic iron; and nine miles away, near the 
Ohio River and Charleston Railroad, are large deposits of hematite 
ore in fine condition for smelting, which yields 60 per cent, of mag- 
netic iron. 

There are several gold mines in the neighborhood, which have, at 
various times, been worked, the ore from two extensive veins near 
here yielding from $16 to I350 per ton. 

When it is considered that our increasing railroad facilities will 
before long bring the coal fields of Tennessee to our doors, it will thus 
be seen that the mineral wealth of this section is not to be discounted 
as a factor in making of Rock Hill a great city. 



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Rock Hill has a banking and loaning capital of $400,000.00; divided 
between the First National Bank, the Savings Bank, the Rock Hill 
Real P^state and Loan Company, the Southern Loan and Investment 
Company and the Mutual Home Building and Loan Association. 

BANKING. 

Every live town and every prosperous business community must 
have good banking facilities, and this important fact was not to escape 
the foresight of Rock Hill's sagacious business men. Hence we find 
two banks springing into existence almost simultaneously in 1886-87. 
There were private banking concerns prior to that time, but it was felt 
that the time for more extended operations along this line had come. 

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The banks and the people are interdependent, and it would be difficult 
to conceive how one could get along without the other. The Rock 
Hill banks have always had the fullest confidence of those having 
business relations with them; and the remembrance of many favors 
bestowed by the banks, gives them a place in the hearts of the people 
of this city and community. 

Not a breath of suspicion has ever tarnished the fair fame of Rock 
Hill's banks; and they have passed unscathed and without a shadow 
of alarm through the late financial panic which swept over the country. 
This fact alone is abundantly significant of the substantial nature of 
Rock Hill's prosperity. 

FIRST NATIONAL BANK. 

The First National Bank was organized January 15, 18S7, with a 
capital of $50,000. The officers first elected were : W. h. Roddey, 
President; John R. London, Vice-President; W.J. Roddey, Cashier; 
J. H. Miller, Teller. 

The present capital is $75,000, with a surplus and profits of 129,000 
and deposits amounting to |;i2i,ooo. 

The following gentlemen compose the present Board of Directors: 
\V. L. Roddey, John R. London, J. E. Roddey, A. F. Ruff, W. A. 
Watson, W. J. Roddey and J. H. Miller. 

Present Officers: W. L. Roddey, President; W. J. Roddey, Vice- 
President; J. H, Miller, Cashier; R. Lee Kerr, Teller. 

THE SAVINGS BANK. 

This bank was organized in 1886, with a capital of $22, 000. It now 
has a capital of $50,000, with surplus and profits of $28,250, and 
deposits of $111,000. 

The Board of Directors of the Savings Bank are : D. Hutchison, 
Jno. R. London, T. L. Johnson, W. J. Rawlinson, W. C. Hutchison, 
R. T. Fewell and Dr. T. A. Crawford. 

Officers: D. Hutchison, President; Jno. R. London, Vice-President; 
J. M. Cherry, Cashier. 



The foregoing figures show that both of these banks are in a 
flourishing condition. The apartments of the First National, on the 
first floor of the Roddey building, are tastily finished and decorated, 
and provided with costly and elegant ofiice fixtures and furniture. 
The Savings Bank building, on Main Street, has an iron and plate glass 
front, and is one of the prettiest business houses in the city. Its 
interior design, finish and furnishings are in keeping with the outside 
appearance. 

ROCK HILL REAL ESTATE AND LOAN COMPANY. 

This institution was organized in 1890. Its authorized capital is 
$100,000. Of this, 176,200 was subscribed. The par value of the shares 
is fioo each, made payable in monthly instalments of one dollar per 
share. The history of this company, which is but a repetition of the 
history of the Savings Bank, shows how salaried men, and others of 
small income, with nothing to invest, may become capitalists. It is a 
short story, and means simply the putting aside of part of one's wages 
or earnings, whatever can be conveniently spared, monthly, and per- 
mitting it to accumulate and become, with other funds built up in the 
same way, organized and efficient capital. He is thus, scarcely know- 
ing how or why, a stockholder in a financial institution, receiving 
dividends and at the same time building up his city. 

The amount paid in by the subscribers to this company, together 
with the earnings of the company, is now sufficient to make the stock 
worth |ioo per share. The fully paid capital is therefore $76,200. 

After thus seeing that this company has matured its stock in 
seventy-nine months, nothing need be said about the success of the 
plan. 

The Board of Directors of this company is composed of the follow- 
ing gentlemen : D. Hutchison, J. R. London, A. Friedheim, R. T. 
Fewell, T. L. Johnson, W. J. Rawlinson, J. M. Cherry, M. H. Sandifer 
and J. B. Johnson. 

The Officers are: D. Hutchison, President; W. J. Rawlinson, Vice- 
President, and J. M. Cherry, Secretary and Treasurer. 



SOUTHERN LOAN AND INVESTMENT COMPANY. 

This company was organized in 1888, and has a paid up capital of 
175,000. Its business is buying, selling and improving real estate. 

The Officers of this company are: W. L- Roddey, President; W. J. 
Roddey, Manager. 

This organization is prospering, and doing its part in building up 
city and country. 

MUTUAL HOME BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION. 

This is what its name implies, a building and loan association, and 
is run entirely by home capital and home men. Its capital stock is 
142,000, which is paid in instalments and loaned out to the members 
on first mortgage real estate securities. It is doing a good business, 
and has several comfortable and attractive little homes to its credit in 
the city. 

It was organized in May, 1892, with the following Officers : John 
R. London, President ; J. B. Johnson, Vice-President ; R.Lee Kerr, 
Secretary and Treasurer. 

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llneurance. 

Most of the standard life insurance companies are represented by 
live agents in Rock Hill. Life insurance has gained a prominence at 
this point, and this field has engaged some of the best talent of the 
city. 

THE EQUITABLE IN THE CAROLINAS. 

The General Agency of the Equitable for the Carolinas is located 
at Rock Hill, and Mr. W. J. Roddey, a young man of large experience 
and fine executive ability, is at the head. Mr. Roddey's quick rise 
from the ranks to the head of his calling shows his worth as an 
insurance man. In 1888, he was the local agent for the Equitable; in 
January, 1889, he accepted the State Agency in connection with A. J. 
Clark, of Lancaster, S. C. ; in July, 1889, he bought Clark out and 

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became the General Agent for the State; in January, 1890, the State of 
North Carolina was added to his territory, making him General Agent 
for the Carolinas, under Geo. T. G. White, Southern Manager; in 1891, 
the office of General Southern Manager was abolished and Mr. Roddey 
was appointed by the home office for the Carolinas. 

When Mr. Roddey went into the insurance business a new impetus 
was given to it in this section. He has always pushed his business, 
and is now travelling a large number of agents in his territory. He 
has large and commodious offices in the Roddey building, which are 
elegantly furnished, and he employs a large number of clerks, stenog- 
raphers and assistants. 

Mr. Roddey is a progresive citizen and has been prominently 
identified with Rock Hill's history in the last decade. 

NEW YORK LIFE. 

This strong company is ably represented by Mr. David Hutchison, 
and does a good business. Mr. Hutchison employs several sul)-ajjents 
in the life insurance business. He can tell you all about life insurance 
and can furnish a policy to suit the most fastidious. 

Mr. Hutchison and Mr. W. J. Roddey each represent strong and 
popular fire insurance companies, and do an extensive fire insurance 
business. There are other fire insurance agents who do business in 
the city. 

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THE ROCK HILL GRADED SCHOOL. 

The first step in the direction of public education taken by the 
municipal authorities of Rock Hill was the establishment of the Rock 
Hill Graded School. The citizens, several years ago, felt that it was 
not only important, but actually necessary that better educational 
advantages should be provided for their children, and this feeling soon 
crystallized in the shape of a large two-story, brick, school building, 
with handsome superintendent's residence appurtenant. The school 

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building is conveniently located on a pretty site in the southeastern 
portion of the city, and presents a neat and attractive appearance. It 
is commodious, well arranged and well ventilated, its construction 
being on late improved plans; and it is suitably equipped with modern 
school furniture and proper teaching appliances. It contains seven 
large class rooms, with a large auditorium in the second story, capable 
of seating several hundred people. The superintendent's residence is 
an eight room, frame building, conveniently located on the school 
grounds. 

The first bonded indebtedness of the town was incurred for the 
purpose of this school, it being built with the proceeds of seven thou- 
sand dollars of town bonds, issued in 1888, supplemented by a fund of 
fifteen hundred dollars, which was a private donation. 

This school opened September 3, 1888, with one hundred and 
twenty-five pupils. It now has a yearly enrolment of more than four 
hundred. It teaches primary and high school branches, and confers 
certificates. It is at present under the efficient superintendence of 
Professor J. W. Thomson, an experienced educator, who is assisted by 
an able complement of teachers for the different grades. 

The Board of Trustees is composed of the following gentlemen : 
Iredell Jones, Chairman ; A. E. Smith, Secretary and Treasurer; Capt. 
W. L. Roddey, W. B. Wilson, W. S. Creighton, J. M. Cherry and Col. 
J. J. Waters. 

There are several private schools where the primary branches are 
taught, and there is a separate graded school for colored children. It 
is proposed also to conduct another graded school in connection with 
the Winthrop Normal and Industrial College. 

HIGH SCHOOL. 

The Rock Hill High School embraces the idea of a connecting 
link between the graded school and the college or university. It com- 
mences where the graded school ends, and prepares students for 
entering the higher college or university classes. It also equips them 

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for the ordinary pursuits of life. The High School building is an 
imposing brick structure situated on Oakland Heights, commanding a 
splendid view of the city and of the community around. It was built 
at a cost of |22,ooo. It is equipped with a large two-story brick dor- 
mitory, and suitable educational appliances. 

This school was built by the Presbyterians of Rock Hill, assisted 
by Bethel Presbytery. While it is thus under the special care of the 
Presbyterian Denomination, it is not sectarian in character, and it is 
patronized by students of other religious denominations. 

This school opened with bright prospects in 1892, under the 
Principalship of Prof. A. R. Banks, an educator of large experience. 
It will doubtless become an important factor in the educational 
advancement of the city. 

THE WINTHROP NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE. 

It will not do to say that up to this time South Carolinians have 
neglected the higher education of women. There have for many 
years been a number of well equipped private colleges and higher 
institutions of learning where their daughters could be educated; but 
it is true, nevertheless, that the State, in its corporate capacity, has, 
until recently, completely ignored this matter. 

Nothing was heard of a separate State institution for girls until 
Hon. W. S. Hall, a member of the State Legislature from Chester 
County, introduced a bill, in 1883, to provide for State aid in the 
education of white women. The matter was indefinitely postponed 
by the Legislature. 

Again, in 1885, a concurrent resolution was adopted, " instructing 
the committee on education of the two houses to prepare a plan 
whereby suitable provision shall be made for the education of the 
white female children of the State." This resolution resulted in 
nothing except to expand the growing sentiment for a college for girls. 

In 1886, Prof. D. B. Johnson, Superintendent of the Columbia 
Graded Schools, being imbued with the idea of a training school for 

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teachers in these schools, went North and secured from the Peabody 
Fund an appropriation of about $2,000 for this normal school. In 
this, he had the hearty cooperation of Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, 
Chairman of the Trustees of the Peabody Fund, and of Dr. J. L. M. 
Curry, the General Agent of this fund. 

On November 15, 1886, the Training School for young white 
women of South Carolina was organized at Columbia, and it was named 
in honor of the illustrious President of the Board of the Peabody 
Educational Fund, who was always a friend to the cause of education 
in the South. 

The first Board of Trustees of this school consisted of F. W. 
McMaster, Chairman ; R. L. Bryan, Wm. H. Lyles, W. C. Swaffield, 
Jno. P. Thomas, Jr., Edward S. Joynes, W. J. Duffie and D. B. Johnson. 

The first Faculty was: D. B. Johnson, President; Miss M. H. 
Leonard, Principal; Miss A. E. Bonham, Practice Teacher; Mrs. T. C. 
Robertson, Teacher of Drawing. 

Seventeen young ladies entered this school at the opening, and 
this number grew to twenty-one, fourteen of whom finished the course 
and received diplomas the first year. 

The Winthrop Training School was chartered by the Legislature 
in December, 1887 ; its sole declared purpose being the training of 
teachers; and about |5,ioo was appropriated for its use by the State. 
This, with the |2,ooo derived from the Peabody Fund, represented the 
inadequate sum with which this institution began its work. 

In July, 1890, Dr. Edward S. Joynes, of the South Carolina College, 
in a speech at Florence, S. C, spoke of the importance of a college 
for women, combining industrial and normal features, and said that 
honor awaited the Governor who first recommended it, and the Legis- 
lature by which it was created. 

Hon. John Peter Richardson, while Governor, favored it in his 
messages to the Legislature; and, when retiring from office in 1890, 
spoke of it as a necessity, and of the neglect of proper female educa- 
tion as a reproach to the State. 



Governor B. R. Tillman, in his inaugural address, delivered 
December 4, 1890, made a strong plea for industrial education for the 
girls of the State, and offered some very practical suggestions looking 
to definite action. The result was that, through the aid of the Legis- 
lature, a Commission composed of Prof. D. B. Johnson, of Columbia, 
Miss Hannah Hemphill, of Abbeville, and Miss May L. Yeargin, of 
Laurens, was appointed to visit the leading institutions of the North, 
to ascertain if normal and industrial education could be profitably 
carried on together. This Commission reported favorably, and the 
Act of the Legislature of December, 1891, followed, creating "The 
Winthrop Normal and Industrial College of South Carolina." Under 
this Act the Winthrop Training School was accepted by the State and 
merged into the College. 

The Act provides for the management of the College by a Board 
of Trustees composed of the Governor, State Superintendent of Educa- 
tion, the Chairman of the Committee on Education of the Senate and 
House, and nine other members, seven to be elected by the Legislature, 
and two more residing where the College is located, to be elected by 
the Trustees. 

Pursuant to the terms of the Act, the Trustees advertised for bids, 
to be made by counties and municipalities in the vState and paid in 
money or bonds, and were required to locate the College at the place 
offering the greatest advantages. 

Rock Hill held an election on March 27j 1893; voted a subscription 
of |6o,ooo in bonds, guaranteed at par; donated a splendid site of 
thirty and one-fourth acres of the best property in the corporate 
limits ; contributed $700 in cash, and 375,000 brick, delivered, and 
secured the prize. 

No stronger testimonial of the enterprise and pluck of Rock Hill 
can be given than to state the fact that she secured this important 
institution in the face of the most formidable opposition, wrenching 
it from the grasp of all her competitors among the most enterprising, 
populous and wealthy cities of the State. 



The College building, just completed, is the finest of its kind in 
the South, and would be a credit to any city. It is situated in Oakland, 
one of Rock Hill's most delightful suburbs, on an eminence overlook- 
ing the city; and in the beauty of its architectural design, as well as in 
the convenience of its arrangement in matters of detail, cannot be 
excelled. It fronts on Oakland Avenue, an elegant driveway, and on 
either wing the plan is for a large brick dormitory, though only one 
of these has been completed. The dormitory that has been finished is 
fitted up with all modern conveniences, and the comfort of the young 
ladies has received most careful consideration in its arrangements and 
appliances. The College has a complete system of water works of its 
own. Macadamized driveways extend all around the College grounds. 
The cost of the buildings and equipments will, completed, approxi- 
mate a quarter of a million dollars. 

As the name of the College indicates, it is an institution where 
South Carolina girls may be educated, while trained at the same time 
in the industrial arts, and where they may be fitted for the noble 
profession of teaching. In the language of its efficient President, D. 
B. Johnson, "The institution will aim to join the 'cultured mind' with 
the 'skilful hand,' and have both dominated by the 'good heart.' " 

A system of scholarships has been provided for the College, and it 
will be liberally supported by the State. The expenses of board, 
tuition and incidentals will be small; and no tuition will be required 
from pupils who are unable to pay. 

When the second dormitory shall have been finished, between five 
and six hundred young ladies can be accommodated. 

The College opened October 15, of the present year, and more than 
three hundred applications for admission have been made. 

This article will show that President D. B. Johnson has always 
been identified with the history of the College. He is a scholarly and 
polished gentleman, with the cause of higher female education 
thoroughly at heart, and the Board has acted wisely in placing him at 

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the head of the faculty. The entire faculty is an able one, made up 
of the best talent in the country. 

The following gentlemen constitute the present Board of Trustees: 
John Gary Evans, Governor; W. D. Mayfield, Superintendent of Edu- 
cation ; W. A. Brown, Chairman of Senate Committee on Education ; 
J. E. Ellerbee, Chairman of House Committee on Education; J. E. 
Brazeale, E. S. Joynes, W. N. Elder, D. W. McLaurin, A. C. Fuller, 
A. H. Patterson, H. B. Buist, B. R. Tillman, W. J. Roddey and T. A. 
Crawford. 

Such is a brief outline sketch of this noble institution, which is 
the pride of the State. Further comment is unnecessary. It marks a 
new era for South Carolina womanhood. The State has gloriously 
redeemed herself, and Rock Hill is delighted with the honor of having 
contributed to the result. 

fiDoral an& IRcUgtoue* 

Rock Hill is a well-behaved place. The people are sober and 
peaceable, and society is high-toned and moral. The rum traffic was 
forever blotted from Rock Hill's history in the year i88t, when by a 
special act of the Legislature, the sale of intoxicating liquors was 
prohibited. The young men of the city are thus removed from 
temptation, and are usually employed in some honorable business. 
They have higher ideals of living than such as the cup of pleasure 
affords, and are mostly young men of affairs. 

Rock Hill people go to church; and there are, among the white 
people, churches for four denominations : Presbyterian, Methodist, 
Baptist and Episcopalian. Two factory chapels have been erected 
under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church, known respectively as 
"White Memorial " and "Jennings " Chapels. There are about an 
equal number of churches for colored people. 

Members of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church worship 
in one of the city halls. This denomination will erect an attractive 
house of worship in the city at an early day. 



The Presbyterians, only a few months ago, finished a handsome 
new church on Main Street. It is beautiful in design, convenient and 
comfortable, and is an ornament to the city. It was built at a cost of 
1 1 2,000. The Presbyterian denomination is the strongest in the city, 
having a membership of over four hundred and eighty. 

The Baptists have also recently built a pretty and inviting little 
church, which is pleasantly situated on Hampton Street. 

The Methodist congregation will enlarge and improve its present 
house of worship. 

A spirit of harmony prevails in all the churches, and they are in a 
prosperous condition, keeping pace with the city's general advance- 
ment. 

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Ibcaltb. 

Rock Hill is situated near the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains 
on the highest elevation between Columbia and Charlotte, being 668 
feet above tide water. The water is pure free-stone, and there are no 
malarial troubles. The city is kept scrupulously clean, and the best 
sanitary regulations are rigidly enforced. 

Hence the health of the city has always been good, and no epi- 
demics or diseases of an endemic character have ever been known. 

MINERAL SPRINGS. 

There are several mineral springs in the vicinity of Rock Hill, but 
the most noted is the one known as "Steele's Spring," owned by John 
G. Steele, of Rock Hill, and situated a short distance beyond the 
corporate limits. It has been analyzed, and contains valuable medici- 
nal ingredients, among which are magnesium, sodium, sulphates, 
silica, alumina, calcium and potassium. 

Mr. Steele has the spring neatly fitted up, and daily supplies a 
large number of the citizens with water. This water is most beneficial 
in cases of dyspepsia and kidney diseases, and its curative qualities 
have made for it a reputation abroad, orders for shipments being often 
received by the owner. 



^be people- 

The people of Rock Hill are unique, and the only way to know 
them thoroughly is to come and mingle with them. Their predomi- 
nant characteristic is, perhaps, the belief that nothing is too good for 
them, and nothing unattainable. They are not disciples of the school 
whose maxim is, " Blessed are those who expect nothing." Theirs is, 
" Blessed are those who expect the best of all that is good," and the 
truth of this dogma of theirs is in the fact that they have had many 
good things and are sure of "more." What they do get is obtained 
fairly, and as a consequence of labor and a laudable ambition. They 
are not wanting in any of the valuable traits which are peculiar to a 
refined and cultured people. 

Here is what has been said of the people by an outsider: "Although 
Rock Hill owes its progress so far entirely to Southern enterprise and 
energy, its people are not at all narrow-minded or illiberal. Desirable 
citizens, from whatever section, will here find a most cordial welcome. 
They are offered the highest and purest moral, social, educational and 
religious, as well as first-class business advantages. The courteous 
hospitality with which the Rock Hill people have ever treated her 
guests has become proverbial, and not a single blot is on her fair name." 

RESIDENCES AND BUSINESS HOUSES. 

The people of Rock Hill do not all live in gilded palaces, or even 
in mansions. There are nevertheless many costly and handsome 
residences, and the people generally are comfortably and attractively 
housed. More attention is being paid to fine residences than ever 
before, and many splendid homes are now building in the new site of 
Oakland, spoken of elsewhere. 

The business houses are all of brick, large, comely and convenient; 
and some of the store-rooms of Rock Hill are as large and present as 
attractive an interior as those of any city in the State. 

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There are lodges of different orders in Rock Hill as follows: 
Masonic, Knights of Honor, Legion of Honor, Knights of Pythias, 
Order of the Golden Chain, and Woodmen of the World. All of these 
lodges have good memberships. 

Catawba Club. 

This is the leading social organization of the city. It is regularly 
chartered, has apartments elegantly fitted up and furnished, with 
reading and sitting rooms and a billiard and pool room. It is supplied 
with periodicals and the leading daily papers. It is governed by a 
rigid code of laws, and the strictest decorum is required on its premises. 

There are Chautauquan and other literary societies in the city. 

• • 

Ibotele. 

Very often an object is good, bad or indifferent, according to the 
point of view from which it is considered ; and doubtless that large 
class of travelling men who have to do with hotels will be disposed to 
base their estimate of a place, to some extent, upon its hotel accom- 
modations. And doubtless, too, a hotel is often a correct index to the 
character of a town or city. There is an inspiration of progressiveness 
about a live town, and a hotel must catch it or be lost in the race of 
life. Rock Hill has never suffered because of her hotel accommodations. 

Located in a section where the most delicious beef, pork and 
mutton can be had for "a song," and where milk and butter and eggs 
and fat chickens are cheap and plentiful, and where every wagon from 
the country is a portable market in itself for supplying the wants of 
the city, no difficulty is had in procuring and preparing edible and 
palatable dishes for the table. Hence Rock Hill has always had the 
reputation of feeding guests. 

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THE CAROLINA. 

While the cuisine of this hotel is always of a high standard, its 
management realizes that "man does not live by bread alone," and 
that there are many other matters necessary to the make-up of a first- 
class hotel. Mr. A. H. Greene, of the Carolina, is a master of the art, 
and knows exactly what is required in the business. The hotel build- 
ing is of brick, three stories high, situated on Main Street within a 
stone's throw of the passenger depot of the Southern Railway. It is 
an imposing structure, and contains forty elegantly and comfortably 
furnished rooms. It is equipped with electric call bells, speaking tubes, 
telephone, baths, etc. Competent servants administer to the comfort 
of the guests, and experienced cooks are in charge of the culinary 
department. 

The hunting privileges of the Carolina are worthy of more than a 
passing notice. This section offers peculiar and special advantages 
for sportsmen, and these advantages are improved by many Northern 
gentlemen, who visit Rock Hill during the winter months. The 
Carolina Hotel posesses shooting privileges for its guests over 12,000 
acres of land; and for persons fond of quail and snipe shooting, a 
veritable paradise is here found. It is not unusual for two good shots 
to bag from 60 to 75 quail in a day. Woodcock is also found here; and 
thousands of geese and ducks have their haunts, in winter, along the 
Catawba River, within a convenient distance of the city. 

The first floor of the hotel building is occupied by the hotel office, 

the First National Bank, and the large and pretty store of the Roddey 

Mercantile Company. This building was erected by Captain W. L. 

Roddey, in 1888, at a cost of $18,000. It is known as the "Roddey 

Building." 

THE CENTRAL. 

This is a two-story hotel conveniently located on Main Street, and 

is conducted by Mrs. M. Sadler. This hotel is well kept, but does not 

cater for the transient trade, being principally devoted to regular 

boarders. 

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Besides these, there are a number of private boarding houses in 
the city where good board can be had at low rates, and Rock Hill can 
always take care of her guests. When necessary for their accommo- 
dation, the hospitable homes of the citizens are thrown open to 
strangers and a welcome given. 

fIDarftet- 

Rock Hill has always held high rank as a cotton market, and yields 
not to Charlotte, Augusta, or any other point on the Charlotte, Colum- 
bia and Augusta Railroad, in the price paid. On account of her cotton 
factories consuming a large proportion of the cotton raised in this 
section, the price is often greater than can be realized on shipments, 
giving an advantage both to the city and the cotton growers around. 

A lively market is also afforded for the sale of all kinds of produce; 
and truck farming in this section, still in its incipiency, presents an 
inviting field to such as have tastes leading them in that direction. 

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flDanufacturlng* 

COTTON. 

"Cotton mills among the cotton fields" used to be a theory, but is 
now become a condition. As to the manufacture of the coarser grades 
of cotton fabrics, New England's occupation is gone, and the business 
now belongs to " Dixie-land." More capital and skilled labor are all 
that are needed to place the South on the topmost round of cotton 
manufacturing of every grade and quality. 

Rock Hill, a number of years ago, believed that the conditions for 
cotton spinning and weaving in the Piedmont Belt were favorable; 
thought that the business could be done by steam power, made the 
experiment and proved the wisdom of her speculations. 

This was among the first towns in the State to build a cotton mill, 
and the success of Rock Hill's first mill— the Rock Hill Cotton Fac- 



tory — was such that others followed and are still following in rapid 
succession. 

All of Rock Hill's factories have made money; two of the three in 
operation have paid dividends, and the third could have done so had 
not its earnings been applied to improving its machinery and enlarging 
the plant. Besides these benefits to the stockholders, the indirect 
advantages accruing to the city in the large amount of money thrown 
into the channels of trade, and to planters of the country around in 
having a better market for their cotton and other products, are not to 
be passed unnoticed. 

Rock Hill has profited in the various ways suggested, and she is 
still pushing forward on the lines begun, feeling assured that her 
conquests are not yet complete in this field. 

THE ROCK HILL COTTON FACTORY. 

This mill was incorporated in the year 1880, and began operations 
the year following. The capital stock is |ioo,ooo, divided into shares 
of the par value of |ioo. The factory building is a large and attractive 
two-story brick structure, conveniently located near the intersection 
of the Southern and Ohio River and Charleston Railroads, with each 
of which roads it has rail connections for the purposes of receiving 
and delivering freight. It was devoted exclusively to spinning up to 
1894, when the Directors decided to put in looms, and it now has 8,000 
spindles and 200 looms. The value of this plant at present is 1175,000. 
It consumes about 2,500 bales of cotton per annum, and its products 
are yarns and white goods— shirtings, sheetings and drills. Its 
products find a ready market at the North. It employs 175 hands, and 
its weekly pay-roll is about I625. 

This mill is running regularly, and it pays its stockholders an 
annual dividend of seven per cent. 

Its Board of Directors are: A. E. Hutchison, A. H. White, W. L. 
Roddey, J. R. London, W. B. Fewell, F. J. Pelzer, of Charleston, and 
Jno. Gill, of Baltimore. 

Officers: A. E. Hutchison, President; D. Hutchison, Secretary, 

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STANDARD COTTON MILL. 

This factory furnishes an object lesson on what can be done in 
factory building by the instalment plan. The authorized capital is 
1150,000 ; made payable by the stockholders in instalments of fifty 
cents per week on each share. The mill was organized in March, 1888, 
and $71,000 of the capital stock was immediately subscribed. Funds 
were secured by the directors, and the building of the mill was com- 
menced shortly after the organization. The plant was ready and 
operations were commenced February 29, 1889, with 200 looms, weav- 
ing alone being the business of this factory. In 1891, the number of 
looms was increased to 300 ; and this number was again increased, in 
1892 and 1893, to 486, The present value of the plant is $150,000. The 
products of this mill are fine gingham goods, shirtings, towels, etc., 
and the value of the yearly output is $300,000. It employs 280 hands, 
and has a weekly pay-roll of j^i,ioo. 

The subscribed capital was fully paid several years ago; additional 
stock has since been subscribed and paid, and the value of the plant 
largely increased, as appears above. It is now paying to its stock- 
holders a ten per cent, annual dividend. This factory occupies a large 
two-story brick building in the eastern suburbs of the city, near the 
Ohio River and Charleston Railroad, with which it has a rail connection. 

The Board of Directors are : W. L. Roddey, A. Friedheim, J. R. 
London, R. T. Fewell, J. B. Johnson, W. J. Roddey, W. J. Rawlinson, 
T. A. Crawford, A. E. Smith. 

OflScers : Jno. R. London, President and Treasurer; P. C. Poag, 
Secretary. 

Only one change has been made among the ofiicers of this mill 
•ince its organization, and that has been on account of death. 

GLOBE MILL. 

The Globe is a spinning and weaving mill, and has 7,380 spindles 
and 320 looms. It occupies a one-story brick building, 375 feet long 

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and I20 feet wide, situated on the Southern Railway, in the south- 
eastern portion of the city. 

This mill was chartered in 1889, its authorized capital being |ioo,- 
000. Of this amount, 195,000 was immediately subscribed and paid, 
and the factory commenced operations in 1890. The plant is now 
valued at |i 10,000. Its products are yarns and fine dress ginghams. 
It consumes 1,800 bales of cotton per annum, 325 operatives are 
employed, and the weekly pay-roll amounts to |i,200. 

This factory has been profitably operated, but its earnings have 
been applied to improvements and new machinery, and not to paying 
dividends. The products of both the Globe and Standard Mills find a 
ready sale in the Northern markets. 

The Directors of the Globe are : W. L. Roddey, A. Friedheim, J. 
R. London, A. E. Smith, A. F. Ruff, R. T. Fewell and J. N. Trainer. 

Ofiicers : John R. London, President and Treasurer ; P. C. Poag, 

Secretary. 

THE ARCADE MILL. 

Here again is an object lesson, showing what one live, energetic, 
ambitious citizen can accomplish in a community ; for it cannot be 
gainsaid that Mr. R. T. Fewell is the leading spirit in this enterprise, 
and that its assured success is due largely to his indomitable pluck and 
perseverance. In fact, it is known as the " Fewell Mill," and the 
honor is well merited. 

The authorized capital of this mill is $200,000, and |ioo,ooo has 
already been subscribed and paid. The building of the mill and 
houses for the hands has already commenced, and it is estimated that 
the plant will be finished and ready for operations by the first of Feb- 
ruary, 1896. The factory building will be of brick, two stories, and 
will be 226 feet long and 79 feet wide. The mill will begin work with 
6,500 spindles and 180 looms. It is estimated that it will consume 
between 1,800 and 2,000 bales of cotton per annum, employ about 200 
hands, and have a weekly pay-roll of between |8oo and ^1,000. This 
mill will manufacture gray goods of the kind used for converters. 

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These goods will be shipped to the Northern markets, where there is 
always a demand for them. 

The Board of Directors are: R. T. Fewell, J. M. Cherry, T. L. 
Johnson, W. J. Roddey, W. J. Rawlinson, T. A. Crawford, Julius 
Friedheim. Mr. R. T. Fewell is President and Treasurer. 

THE MANCHESTER MILL. 

Here is another achievement of a plucky man with brains in his 
head. It is Mr. J. R. Barron's handsome tribute to a live city. That 
Mr. Fewell and Mr. Barron, each of whom are still on the sunny side 
of life's meridian, should have had the hardihood to set out to build 
two cotton factories, in the same municipality, in sight of each other, 
and this on the heels of a panic that has seriously damaged the cotton 
milling interests all over the country, is a straw to show how the wind 
blows. It shows that there is life in this old land yet, that there is 
faith in Rock Hill, and that cotton manufacturing properly belongs to 
the land "where the cotton whitens beneath the stars." 

The Manchester will be a three-story building, and will present a 
handsome appearance when completed. Work has already been 
begun, and the plant will be ready for operations in the Spring of 1896. 

The capital invested is $125,000, and it will begin with 7,000 
spindles and 200 looms. It will consume between 1,800 and 2,000 bales 
of cotton yearly, will employ about 200 hands, and the weekly pay-roll 
will be between $750 and |i,ooo. The products will be yarns and 
white goods. 

The Board of Directors are: J. R. Barron, W. L. Roddey, J. Freid- 
heim, J. B. Johnson, W. J. Roddey, R. L. Campbell, of Clover, S. C, 
E. Milheiser, of Richmond, Va., and Robert H. Wylie, of New York. 

Mr. J. R. Barron is President and Treasurer, 

THE ROCK HILL BUGGY COHPANY. 

This corporation was chartered in 1886, and has a capital stock of 
|75,ooo. It does a yearly business of from sixty to seventy-five 
thousand dollars; employs 65 men ; travels two men on the road all 

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the time, and sells vehicles all through the South and West. It 
employs the latest improved modern machinery. Its immense plant 
covers four acres. This is one of the gigantic institutions of Rock 
Hill, and its vehicles have made for it an enviable reputation wherever 
they have been introduced. 

The Directors are: A. R. Smith, J. M. Cherry, D. Hutchison, A. 
D. Holler, Sam Friedheim, W. J. Roddey, T. A. Crawford, Frel Mobley 
and Jno. G. Anderson. 

Officers: A. R. Smith, President ; D. Hutchison, Vice-President ; 
J. M. Cherry, Treasurer; John G. Anderson, Manager. 

DOOR, SASH AND BLIND. 

The L. Iv. Clyburn Door, Sash and Blind Factory is not to be over- 
looked. The name of this factory sufficiently indicates its object. 
Captain L. Iv. Clyburn is sole proprietor, and the capital invested is 
$20,000. About 25 hands are employed, and the weekly pay-roll is 
something like a hundred dollars. This factory contracts also to 
build houses. 

PIEDMONT TOBACCO WORKS. 

This factory was chartered the present year, and is in operation at 
present with a full force of hands. It is authorized under its charter 
to engage in the manufacture of tobacco in every conceivable form. 
Its authorized capital is $40,000, the greater part of which has been 
subscribed and paid. This factory is at present engaged exclusively 
in the manufacture of plug and twist tobacco, and it turns out several 
grades, its products comparing favorably with those of experienced 
manufacturers of the tobacco states. It will consume 250,000 pounds 
of crude tobacco yearly, and the proceeds from its annual products 
will not fall short of 130,000. It employs 100 hands, and has a weekly 
pay-roll of $300. It employs both skilled and unskilled labor, hence 
there is much difference in the wages paid. Expert rollers are paid 
from $10 to $15 per week. 

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This factory is located in Rock Hill because of the recent extensive 
operations in tobacco culture in this section; of which something will 
be hereafter stated. It has bright promises of success. Mr. Philip 
Taylor, an experienced tobacconist, formerly of North Carolina, is in 
charge as President. 

The Board of Directors are : Philip Taylor, Dr. T. A. Crawford, 
John R. London, W. J. Roddey, J. B. Johnson, D. Hutchison and Frel 

Mobley. MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURING. 

In addition to the manufacturing industries thus briefly described, 
there are others worthy of mention. There are machine shops which 
are doing a prosperous business, in connection with which is an iron 
foundry. 

The Egypt Canning Company cans vegetables and fruits, and its 
products are of a high grade and find ready sale in the home market 
as well as abroad. 

There are tile and brick factories, which make most of the brick 
used in Rock Hill and are kept busily employed. 

There are flouring mills which produce a fine quality of flour from 
wheat raised in this section, the products being sold in competition 
with those of Western mills. 

Superior saddles and harness are manufactured, and orders for 
these articles from different parts of the State are filled. 

A movement is on foot for the establishment of a cotton seed oil 
mill, which is a possibility of the near future. Rock Hill has already 
had an oil mill, but the plant was recently destroyed by fire. Its 
success when in operation was sufficient to induce the building of 
another, which will soon be accomplished. 

LANDS=FORD ELECTRIC POWER PLANT. 

One of the mammoth enterprises which promises much for Rock 
Hill is the certain early development of the water-power at the Lands- 
Ford P'alls of the Catawba River, than which there is probably no 
greater in the Union. These falls cover a wide space of ground, and 



onsequently the rise in freshets is never great. The drainage area 
above Lands-Ford is about 3,425 square miles, hence these ample water 
powers are continuous. 

In 1820, the State of South Carolina built a canal nearly two miles 
long, covering the distance around these falls, for boating purposes. 
This canal was built at a large expense, and still shows evidences of 
superior masonry in its construction. It is still standing, and with a 
little repairing, can be made to render good service in carrying water 
for turning mills. It was built of granite obtained from quarries near 
by, and plenty of granite is still there to serve its part in factory 
building. At the head of this canal a curved dam of loose rock, 4^ 
feet high, now extends across to an island, a distance of about 1,500 
feet. This dam raises the water only about 2^ feet. The fall in 
this canal, exclusive of the guard-lock, is about 35 feet; with a tight 
dam six or eight feet high at the head of the canal, a fall of 40 feet 
can be obtained. 

A responsible engineer, after a thorough examination, estimates 
that 15,000 horse-power can be developed at this place at a compara- 
tively small cost. In addition to this, there are many natural advantges 
to be considered, such as freedom from ice stoppage in winter; splendid 
factory sites, with rock foundations for buildings and machinery; the 
best building materials immediately at hand; no reservoir to watch, etc. 

This water-power is situated at a distance of fifteen miles from 
Rock Hill, southeast, and is controlled by Rock Hill capitalists. A 
company has been organized and operations will be commenced at an 
early day, and it is expected that the plant will be completed and 
ready for business in the Spring of 1896. Ihe plan of its promoters 
is to establish a large electric power plant at Lands-Ford and transmit 
electricity to Rock Hill for the supply of the various factories and 
machinery here located. It is estimated that 2,500 horse-power can be 
delivered at Rock Hill from a plant built at a cost of $250,000, and the 
company has already a guaranty of having to supply 2,000 horse-power 
to Rock Hill manufacturers at the price of |30,ooo per annum. 

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In addition to the enterprise already outlined, this company will 
build cotton and other factories on the river, and will sell factory sites 
to persons or companies who wish to avail themselves of the many 
fine advantages offered. 

A writer, in speaking of this subject, shows the superior advan- 
tages of Lands-Ford by comparison with other places, and particularly 
with Augusta, Ga. He says: 

"The canal at Augusta is seven miles long, and has cost $822,000. 
The price paid for the use of the power, undeveloped, is $5-50 per 
annum, for each horse power. There are about 160,000 spindles and 
about 4,000 looms in operation up to this date in that enterprising and 
attractive city. This grand canal and power is the source of Augusta's 
growth and industrial prosperity; from the point of view of an invest- 
ment, it is proper to state that the canal's annual rentals show an 
income of 10 per cent, on its total cost. 

"A manufacturing and power company will be able to locate, along 
one and one-fourth miles of this proposed canal at Lands-Ford, six 
separate mills and mill villages, with a total of 200,000 spindles and 
5,000 looms, and furnish water to turn their wheels, on an outlay of 
about |8o,ooo, which is less than one-tenth the outlay at Augusta, and 
can furnish additional power for electrical purposes." 

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^Tobacco Culture* 

In the year 1893, tobacco growing was attempted on a small scale 
in this section as an experiment. Several farmers of the community 
joined together, each planting small areas, and the services of T. S. 
Groome, an experienced tobacco raiser of North Carolina, were secured. 
The test was sufficient to insure more extensive planting the second 
year, and Mr. Frel Mobley, a live and energetic young Rock Hillian, 
who knows a good thing when he sees it, took Mr. Groome into 
co-partnership and planted a large area in tobacco. These young men 
were successful, and realized a neat profit from their crop of 1894. There 

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was no longer a doubt as to the advantages of tobacco raising in this 
section; and Messrs. Mobley and Groome this year manage and control 
two hundred acres of land planted in tobacco, distributed between 
Catawba and Bethsda Townships. Their crop is a good average one, 
and will yield about 700 pounds per acre, of fine texture and good 
color. They have employed four expert curers for the present crop, 
and have arranged for fifteen experienced graders to grade the crop 
before it is placed on the market. They will have between thirty-five 
and forty thousand pounds ready for market b}^ the first day of Novem- 
ber, and are assured of a very handsome profit from the present crop. 
Messrs. Mobley and Groome are well provided with barns, flues, ware- 
houses, stripping rooms and cellars. 

Besides the acreage cultiv&ted by these gentlemen, there are about 
one hundred acres cultivated by others, making about three hundred 
acres employed in tobacco culture. The success of this experiment 
has been so great, and the proceeds to be realized from the present 
crop will be so large, that the tobacco acreage of 1896 will probably be 
double that of this year. 

The loamy, sandy soil of this section is specially adapted to the 
production of wrappers, and the leaves are lemon and bright yellow in 
color. Experts who have examined the tobacco, say that the quality 
cannot be excelled anywhere. The best grade sells for $75.00 per 
hundred pounds, and the average price realized from a crop is from 10 
to 12}4. cents per pound. 

A comparison of the foregoing figures with those presented in 
cotton raising makes the importance of this industry apparent. Expe- 
rienced tobacco planters, who have also engaged in raising cotton, say 
that the cost per acre of raising a tobacco crop is only four dollars 
more than the cost per acre of raising a cotton crop. The profits from 
a tobacco farm, where properly managed, are easily double and some- 
times triple what the profits of the same farm would be in cotton. So 
that the kingship of cotton is in peril; and this other product, which 
may now be regarded as staple in this section, is bidding for the 
supremacy with every indication in its favor. 

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Xat>or an^ Magee- 

Some idea of the amount of wages paid to the laborer will doubtless 
be gathered from the preceding pages. Unskilled labor is practically 
represented by colored people, and skilled labor by white. Unskilled 
labor receives from 75 cents to |i.oo per day, while skilled labor is 
paid from I1.50 to $4.00 per day. Laborers all find plenty of work, 
and none are idle from necessity. 



IReal leetate. 

ROCK HILL LAND AND TOWN SITE COMPANY. 

The increasing demand for dwelling houses and building sites in 
Rock Hill a few years ago impressed some of her enterprising citizens 
with the imperative necessity of providing for these exigencies of a 
growing municipality. Hence the Rock Hill Land and Town Site 
Company was organized in 1891, with the following Directors : W. B. 
Wilson, President; R. T. Fewell, Vice-President; W. L. Roddey, 
Treasurer; J. M. Cherry, Secretary; Jno. J. Hemphill. 

This company purchased a large body of land adjacent to that 
part of the city which was already built up and improved, most of 
which was within, but some without the corporate limits. This prop- 
erty is situated north of the business portion of the city, on a high 
elevation, and could not have been better selected for the purpose 
intended. The Town Site Company has a capital of |ioo,ooo, and they 
have spared no expense necessary to the improvement of this property. 
Broad streets and drive-ways have been graded through the property 
and named ; lots have been surveyed and numbered ; and descriptive 
maps have been published, showing outlines, streets, measurements, 
lots, sites, etc. A public park, intersected with drive-ways and con- 
taining a pleasure pavilion, is one of the attractions, and it all goes to 
make up the pleasing little village of Oakland. 

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OAKLAND. 

"Going out to Oakland" is a popular expression in Rock Hill, and 
the city is becoming so fond of drifting in that direction that the City- 
Street Railway, which extends through and connects Oakland with the 
business section, is destined before long to reap a rich harvest. In 
fact, the Street Railway is a product of Oakland and has had the same 
promoters. The Industrial College and the High School are situated 
in Oakland, in sight of each other, and large and beautiful residences 
are springing up all over this lovely suburban village. 

Oakland is the work of the Town Site Company, and the success 
of this venture proves the wisdom of its promoters. 

This company held a public auction of city lots on the 3d and 4th 
days of July, 1891, when a number of lots were sold. It has still many 
valuable building lots, which are offered at, reasonable rates. This 
property is certain to enhance in value ; and there can be no doubt 
about the growth of Oakland as a part of Rock Hill, and on account 
of the special educational advantages afforded. 

IREDELL LAND COMPANY. 

This company was organized in 1893, with a capital of |;io,ooo. It 
owns fifty-four acres of the most desirable residential property in Rock 
Hill, situated in the eastern portion of the city and commanding a 
splendid view of the city and the country around. Its property has 
been laid off into lots and streets, is now on the market, and lots can 
be purchased at reasonable rates. This company was a competitor 
with the Town Site Company for the location of the Normal and 
Industrial College, and gave its rival a close race for this institution. 

Its property is beautifully situated, is undulating and well-drained, 
and has good water. High-toned and substantial gentlemen are the 
promoters of this organization, and they take pleasure in showing 
their properties to visitors to the city. 

The Officers are : Iredell Jones, President ; Frel Mobley, Vice- 
President ; D. Hutchison, Secretary and Treasurer. 

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CITY LOTS. 

It is but natural that real estate should have advanced in prices in 

Rock Hill in view of the rapid growth of the place ; but taking into 

consideration all of the advantages accruing to the citizen residing 

here, the prices are still quite reasonable. Good residence property 

in a desirable location, wdth a depth of from i8o to 200 feet can be 

purchased at from three to five dollars per front foot; of course, the 

best residence property sells at a much higher rate. Lots of the same 

depth in the business portion of the city sell at from $50 to ^100 per 

front foot. There is never a period when the sale of lots is not going 

on, steadily and oftentimes rapidly, as the city is building up and 

expanding. 

FARfl LANDS. 

The farm lands in this section are various in character, and always 
fertile and productive. To the north and west of Rock Hill the lands 
have mostly clay and mulatto sub-soils, and their fertility is capable 
of being greatly increased. These lands are adapted to the raising of 
cotton, corn, tobacco, wheat, oats, rye, clover and the grasses. To the 
south and east, the lands are sandy and black-jack. While a few 
years ago these black-jack lands were regarded as of little value, on 
account of their liability to produce "rust" on growing cotton, the use 
of potash has fully redeemed and reclaimed the greater part of them, 
and they are now regarded as the best farming lands in the country. 
Some of these black-jack lands produce corn equal to that which 
grows on the richest alluvial bottoms. 

The sandy lands in this section are productive of cotton; and are 
specially adapted to the raising of tobacco, as is shown elsewhere in 
this manual. 

Little attention has been paid to the cultivation of the grasses 
here, but large quantities of hay are gathered from the volunteer 
growth of numerous meadow lands. Stock, cattle and sheep raising 
has received some attention ; and the raising of hogs has come to be 
regarded as an indispensable part of farm operations. 

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IReal jeetate Broherage. 

The Rock Hill Real Estate Agency was established in 1894. Prior 
to this time, such a business as a real estate brokerage was unknown 
in the city. There were land companies and renting agents, and 
agents who represented others on a small scale in the sale of real 
estate; but the brokerage feature was entirely new, and in most cases 
each individual or company acted for himself or itself in the purchase 
and sale of real estate. 

The time, however, had come for a change; and necessity became 
the mother of the land brokerage business. Extensive operations in 
real estate demanded that there must be an intelligence bureau where 
people could go to learn of it. A live and growing city must have real 
estate to sell, and there must be some one whose business it is to sell 
it. It was on this economical principle of a proper distribution of 
labor that this agency was founded and is succeeding. It serves its 
patrons as vendor or purchaser; and buys options on real estate when 
desired. In a word, it is engaged in everything pertaining to the real 
estate business in all of its ramifications. 

This agency is the affair of W. J. Cherry, and is under his sole 
management. 

HOMES FOR IMMIGRANTS. 

The Rock Hill Real Estate Agency is not limited in its operations 
to the City of Rock Hill, but controls the sale of large quantities of 
land in York County, and the adjacent Counties of Lancaster and 
Chester. These lands embrace many distinct tracts,- some of which 
are contiguous to each other, and special inducements are offered to 
colonies of immigrants who are desirous of settling in the same neigh- 
borhood. A large area of fine farming lands in the Waxhaw section 
of Lancaster County, and along the east bank of the Catawba River, 
in the Counties of Lancaster and York, can be bought on easy terms 
at prices ranging from five dollars per acre upwards. These lands are 
in a healthy section of country, some of them finely timbered, and all 

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conveniently located near the Ohio River and Charleston, and Georgia, 
Carolina and Northern Railroads. The low prices at which these lands 
can be bought are due to the sparse population of their locality, and 
the scarcity of money which has tied up all interests all over the coun- 
try for the past few years. They would be cheap at double the prices 
asked, and are certain to enhance in value as population increases 
and farming interests are improved. They compare favorably in 
fertility with the best lands in Lancaster County, and are adapted to 
the growing of cotton, corn, tobacco, wheat, oats, clover and other 
crops. While some of these lands are in Lancaster County, they are 
nearer to Rock Hill than to the town of Lancaster, and Rock Hill is 
the market for produce raised in that vicinity. 

Farmers of the Northwest, who have failed on account of adverse 
conditions, and who desire homes where their labors will be crowned 
with a proper reward, will do well to turn their footsteps in this direc- 
tion. The Piedmont Section is sure to become the garden spot of the 
American Continent, and those who cast their lots here, under these 
auspicious Southern skies, will bless the day that decided their choice. 

Factory sites and valuable water-powers are for sale by this agency, 
and its manager is always delighted to correspond with manufacturers 
who desire a location. 

REAL ESTATE.— RENTING. 

Col. John J. Waters is the pioneer in this business, and now does 
the renting and collecting of rents for the city. He is an intelligent, 
courteous and affable gentleman, and if renting be your business, you 
cannot do better than to cultivate an acquaintance with him and his 
properties. 

^elepbonc, poetal an& ©tbcr facilitice* 

The city has a Telephone Company, and a first-class system of 
telephonic intercommunication is one of its conveniences. It connects 
all of the business houses, shops, offices, depots and factories, and 

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includes a large number of the private residences. This company has 
the franchise for connecting with other towns in the County. 

Rock Hill has also a long distance telephone connection with 
Charlotte, Salisbury, Concord and other towns in North Carolina. Its 
postal, telegraph and express facilities are first-class. 



3flre Department* 

Rock Hill has a well-equipped and efficient Fire Department, 
which is in charge of the young men of the town. Their services are 
principally voluntary, though certain privileges and exemptions are 
granted to them. They are sufficiently patriotic to be always counted 
on, and large pay is not a necessary incentive. There is also a colored 
fire company, which can be depended on to render effective services 
at a fire. 

The facilities for extinguishing fire are: A Silsby steamer managed 
by the Rock Hill Steam Fire Company and a hook and ladder truck, 
controlled by the colored fire company. Large cisterns judiciously 
located furnish an ample supply of water. 

The Silsby is a noble fire extinguisher, and has many times paid 
for itself in property saved. 

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1Rew6paper< 



Rock Hill has one newspaper, the Herald, which is published 
twice a week. The corporation has always had a live paper, which 
has done its part in building up the city. The Herald was established 
in 1876, by the late James M. Ivy. Mr. J. J. Hull bought the paper in 
1886, and has owned it continuously since. Mr. Hull is editor as well 
as proprietor. Besides being an able writer, he is an experienced and 
practical printer, and the appearance of his paper bears evidence of 
his fitness for his callin«:. 



public Xibiar^* 

One of the valued institutions of the city is its Public Library. It 
is well supplied with books and current literaturej and is quite attrac- 
tive to visitors, who are always welcomed and politely received by the 
I/ibrarian in charge. It has also been made the depository of the 
records of the Fifth Congressional District. It is maintained by an 
association composed of the citizens of the city; and the city govern- 
ment exercises a fostering care, and has provided for its welfare in its 
organic law. 

3fc&eval BiulMne In proepect 

The next good thing in store for Rock Hill is most likely a Federal 
building. There is a movement now being made for the establishment 
of a United States Court House in this section, and as there is a large 
amount of mail business at this place, which is daily increasing, it is 
highly probable that Congress will provide for the erection of a build- 
ing at Rock Hill, combining a postofBce and court room. A bill has 
already been introduced in Congress to establish a court house here, 
and its chances for becoming a law are reported to be favorable. 



Qtvccte. 

Rock Hill has now about ten miles of macadamized streets, smooth 
and in fine condition. Main and Railroad Streets have granite side- 
walks, laid with granite obtained from quarries just outside of the 
corporate limits. The important work of grading and macadamizing 
the streets, and constructing granite sidewalks, was begun in 1889, in 
which year town bonds to the amount of $5,000 were issued for the 
purpose. It was found that this amount would fall far short of what 
was necessary for the work begun ; and so, in 1891, additional bonds 
to the amount of |iio,ooo were issued. With the funds derived from 



these bonds, a good and substantial work has been done, and Rock 
Hill now has first-class streets that will be as enduring as the city 
itself. 

The following gentlemen composed the Council under which this 
important work was begun, and to them is largely due the credit for 
its accomplishment: J. M. Cherry, Intendant ; R. T. Fewell, A. D. 
Holler, J. J. Hagins and D. C. Williams, Wardens. 



flDaca&ami3e5 lRoa&e* 



Good roads in a community are as important as good streets in a 
town or city; and, other things being equal, that town or city which 
has smooth, substantial highways leading into it will far outstrip the 
one which is difficult to reach because of rough and neglected roads. 
The facilities being alike, people will go to do their marketing to the 
place which is easiest of access. The saving from properly constructed 
roads is not only one of comfort and convenience, but also one of 
dollars and cents; for no argument is needed to show that vehicles 
will last longest and horses will have to be shod the least number of 
times where the roads are the best. All of these matters have been 
considered in Rock Hill, and she is solving the question of good 
country highways for herself. If her sister cities and towns in the 
State would follow her example in this respect, the road question 
would be solved in South Carolina. If all the municipal corporations 
in the State would build good roads from their limits as far into the 
country as their resources would permit, the people in the country 
would soon emulate their example in extending the work, and there 
would soon be no bad roads in the State. 

The plan of macadamizing the roads around Rock Hill was con- 
ceived by Dr. T. A. Crawford, a prominent citizen of the city, and its 
successful execution is the result of his efficient head work and 
unconquerable energy. 

In the Spring of 1891, Dr. Crawford proposed to the corporate 
authorities that if they would macadamize Elm Avenue to the city 

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limits, and contribute one-fourth of the cost of extending it for a 
distance of two miles beyond, he would undertake to procure the 
people in the country who used the road, to contribute the other three- 
fourths of the expenses. The Council accepted the proposition and, 
with this as a lever. Dr. Crawford succeeded in getting the people of 
the neighborhood using the road to undertake their part of the work. 
Subscriptions were permitted to be paid in labor and by the use of 
wagons and teams, and for every three dollars thus subscribed the 
City Council subscribed and paid one dollar. The County Commis- 
sioners were induced to have stumps and rocks removed, and to 
furnish an engine and rock crusher. 

The road, thirty feet wide, was laid off by a civil engineer, and 
the water-ways marked. The surface of the road-way was then made 
loose by ploughing, and the earth was thrown to the middle of the 
road with a street plough, making it twelve inches higher in the mid- 
dle than at the sides. It was then rolled with a two ton iron roller, 
and the crushed rock laid on to a depth of from five to eight inches 
and covering a width of nine feet. The rock was then rolled by the 
same roller and packed. This was the complete process; and a road 
leading through marshy lands, which sometimes through the winter 
months could scarcely be travelled, was thus transformed into one of 
the finest roads in the country, and is now become a favorite drive-way 
for inhabitants of the city. It is a lasting memorial of the progressive- 
ness of a worthy citizen, and in his honor it bears the name of the 
"Crawford Road." 

This road enters Rock Hill from the South. It was such a suc- 
cessful experiment that another road was built on the same plan three 
miles long, entering Rock Hill from the Southeast. The entire cost 
of the two roads was about $3,000; so that the city has only expended 
about $750 in the work. 

Other Rock Hill roads are soon to receive similar treatment, and 
Rock Hill is thus gradually becoming the center of a ststem of first- 
class roads. 



Ibow tbe Citi? (e XiQbteb* 

The city has an efficient system of electric lighting, embracing 
arc lights for the streets and incandescent for buildings and residences. 
The plant is the property of a private corporation, which was organized 
in 1890, by residents of the city. This company has a contract with 
the city for lighting the streets, embracing a period of six years, and 
by which it is permitted to light residences and to furnish lights for 
all private purposes. The plant is conveniently located for its purpose, 
and electricity is generated by two engines aggregating two hundred 
and twenty-five horse-power. 

This company now lights most of the residences of the city, fur- 
nishes lights for the Rock Hill Cotton Factory, and does the lighting 
for the Winthrop Normal College. 

J. M. Cherry is President of the- company. The Directors are: 
J. M. Cherry, Jno. R. London, D. Hutchison, A. H. White, Julius 
Friedheim, J. F. Reid and R. T. Fewell. 

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Respecting the business character and prospects of this "hustling" 
little city, it is scarcely necessary to speak, when the facts and figures 
already stated have been considered. It would be solecistic to write 
about a "loafer" in Rock Hill. Such an anomalous creature is an 
impossibility in this atmosphere. A loafer would be so solitary here 
that he would languish and die of ennui; or else he would be hatched 
from his chrysalis state into a useful, active and busy citizen. The 
men of business are intelligent, industrious men of affairs, who do not 
underrate the dignity of labor. They have always realized that they 
must work for the "daily bread" for which they pray. In this way, 
they have acquired an enviable reputation for business ability, and 
have built up for themselves a large and valuable trade. While the 
city is self-sustaining and can live on her own resources, she has 
always been in touch with the country around; and she draws trade 
from all parts of York County, and from adjacent counties. 



The secret of the wonderful success of this granite city of the 
hills is to be found in the fact that she has always steered straight 
between the Scylla of dissension and the Charybdis of unbelief in the 
possibilities of her future. Faith and Unity are the magic words 
emblazoned on her escutcheon; and she believes in no talisman except 
Pluck. Her history from the beginning is aptly summarized as "a 
long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together." 

Caration, lln&ebte&neee anb IReeourcee. 

Among the first inquiries some persons will make about a place 
are questions about taxation and indebtedness. In fact, there are 
some persons who seem to have a constitutional horror for taxes and 
bonded indebtedness. Such persons are properly classified as "moss- 
backs," and they usually live in some little shriveled up municipality 
where the wheels of progress are hopelessly clogged. Fortunately 
for Rock Hill, the genus has never appeared. 

The citizens of Rock Hill are neither parsimonious nor extrava- 
gant; but they have not hesitated to go in debt for a good thing that 
is offered, if convinced that it is a prudent thing to do, in view of all 
the circumstances. In this way the city has climbed to her vantage- 
ground. Property has increased in amount and value as different 
issues in bonds have been made, so that the raise in taxes has been 
scarcely appreciable. The bonded debt of |86,ooo, compared with 
property and resources, is reasonable, and eight and a half mills, the 
rate of taxation is actually small in comparison with the rate in our 
most populous and wealthy cities. So Rock Hill's taxes are reason- 
able, she does not owe more than she can easily pay at maturity; and 
back of it all, she has a brainy, plucky and tireless people as part of 
her available resources. 

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BiograpbtcaL 

Some interesting biographies could be picked up in Rock Hill, 
and it would doubtless be instructive to study the individual histories 
and characters of the men who are engaged in building the city now 
receiving the attention of the writer ; but such an idea is foreign to 
the purpose of this little book, and it is preferred for those who have 



the inclination and the patience to read these pages to gather their 
ideas of the individual citizens of Rock Hill from the deeds they have 
done, and which are here set down. In this way, a sufficiently clear 
idea of who and what the men are will be obtained. 



ITinaL 

The conclusion of the story of Rock Hill brings the writer back to 
the beginning, and makes him feel like qualifying what was there 
said by asking to make some explanations. 

He realizes the many imperfections in the task which was under- 
taken. It is illogical in arrangement, the subject-matter being set 
down as it occurred to the writer, without regard to the relation of the 
different topics. The apology for this is, that it had to be written 
hastily amid the pressing demands of other duties; the writer had no 
model for his work before him; and he had consequently to write thus 
at random. There are doubtless important matters overlooked which 
should have received attention ; on the other hand, in undertaking a 
pen picture of Rock Hill (the home of the writer) he has had to avoid 
falling into the error of an unworthy attempt at flourishes. He has 
striven to give a faithful portrayal, and is conscientious in believing 
that he has stated the truth in all that is written ; and if there are any 
doubting Thomases into whose hands these lines may come, they are 
asked to come to Rock Hill and "prove the pudding" for themselves. 

It is not claimed that Rock Hill has all that an ambitious city 
could desire, and that she is altogether self-satisfied. Such a claim 
would involve nothing but reproach. Much more is desired for her. 
Good, honest and deserving men and women are invited to come and 
make Rock Hill their home. Capital is desired, and is invited, with 
the assurance beforehand that there will always be satisfactory profits 
for the investor in Rock Hill enterprises. A welcome is here for 
honest brawn and brain in all of the departments of human activity. 
Parents with children to educate are asked to come and enjoy the 
splendid advantages here given. The latch string is "on the outside 
to all who have an honest purpose in life, and are trying to measure 
up to the great responsibilities of living. All such are invited to come 
to Rock Hill and cast their lots in a live and growing city which is 
marching with magical swiftness to a glorious destiny in the New 
South. 

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2)irector^. 



General Mercantile Business— Roddey Mercantile Co., Main 
Street; A. Friedlieim & Bro., Main Street; R. T. Fewell & Co., Main 
Street and Railroad Avenue; A. E. Smith & Co., Main Street; C. W. 
Frew, Main Street ; J. W. O'Neal, corner Main Street and Railroad 
Avenue. 

Family Groceries — L. M. Davis, Railroad Avenue; W. Oakraan, 
Railroad Avenue; Bryant & Avery, Main Street; J. N. McElwee & Co., 
Main Street; J. J. Hagins & Co., Railroad Avenue; Ausband Bros., 
(also sell furniture,) corner Main and Church Streets; W. J. Caveny, 
Main Street; W. S. Nicholson, Main Street. 

Dry Goods, Clothing, Shoes— August Friedheini, Main Street; 
S. Segal, Railroad Avenue. 

Racket Stores — New York Racket, True & Klutz, Proprietors, 
Main Street; The Robertson Company, Main Street. 

Vehicles— Rock Hill Buggy Co., Wilson Street; Reid & Wroton, 
Main Street. 

Furniture, Stoves, Undertaking — S. T. Frew & Co., Main 
Street; Reid & Wroton, Main Street. 

Druggists— J. B. Johnson & Co., Main Street; M. H. Sandifer, 
Main Street; A. J. Evans, Main Street; J. J. Hagins & Co., Railroad 
Avenue. 

Cotton Firms— A. E. Smith & Co.; R. T. Fewell & Co.; A. Fried- 
heini & Bro.; Ed. Fewell ; Ruff & Morrison ; Heath, Springs & Co., 
represented by T. L. Johnson ; Sanders, Orr & Co., represented by 
Zeb. Johnson. 

Machine Shops and Foundry— W. S. Creighton & Co., office in 
factory building, near Main Street. 

Jewelers— George Beach, Main Street; I. Blumberg, Main Street. 

Millinery and Mantua Making— Ratterree & Adams, millinery; 
Misses Erwin & Proctor, mantua makers ; Miss INlary Smith, mantua 
maker; Mrs. Tuggle, mantua maker; Roddey Mercantile Co., millinery; 
R. T. Fewell & Co., millinery. 

Hardware— Rock Hill Hardware Co., Main Street. 

Meat Market— V. B. McFadden, Main Street; Kerr & Peacock, 
corner Main and Hampton Streets ; John Mallard, corner Main and 
Wilson vStreets. 

Livery and Sale Stables— Kerr & Heath, West Main Street; J, 
W. Marshall, Hampton Street ; J. Harvey Neely, corner Main and 
Church Streets. 

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Saddles and Harness— McFadden & Johnson, Main Street. 

Brokers — B. N, Craig, merchandise broker and commission mer- 
chant. Main Street; W. A. Fewell, merchandise broker and commission 
merchant, Library Building ; Watts & Wood, cotton, stock and bond 
brokers (private leased wire connections with New York, New Orleans 
and Chicago,) Main Street ; J. D. Scruggs, merchandise broker and 
commission merchant. 

Railroad and Express Companies— J. E. Forney, local passenger 
and freight agent of the Southern Railway Co., and of the Southern 
Express Co., offices in depots of Southern Railway Co.; A. C. Izard, 
soliciting freight agent of the Southern Railway Co. T. B. Lumpkin, 
local agent of the Ohio River and Charleston Railway Co., offices at 
O. R. & C. Railway depot. 

Life and Fire Insurance — Representatives : W. J. Roddey, D. 
Hutchison, L. Sherfesee, P. C. Poag. Jno. R. London. 

Western Union Telegraph Company— Office: Library building, 
Main Street. 

Banks— First Fational, W. L. Roddey, President; W. J. Roddey, 
Vice-President; J. H. Miller, Cashier; R. Lee Kerr, Teller; L. C. 
Harrison, Bookkeeper. Savings Bank, D. Hutchison, President; John 
R. London, Vice-President; J. M. Cherry, Cashier; Paul Workman, 
Teller; J. R. Boulware, Bookkeeper. 

Professional— Ministers : H. R. Moseley, Baptist; H. B. Browne, 
Methodist; J. W. C. Johnson, Episcopal ; Alexander Sprunt, Presby- 
terian; O. G.Jones, Second Presbyterian; G. T. Harmon, Methodist 
Presiding Elder, Rock Hill District. Lawyers : W. B. Wilson, J. J. 
Waters, J. E. Fairey, W. J. Cherry. Physicians : T. A. Crawford, W. 
F. Strait, T. L. Cornwell, W. J. White, J. M. Hunter, J. A. Meldau, J. 
P. Crawford, J. E. Massey, J. W. Prather. Dentists : I. Simpson & 
Son, W. A. Pressley. 

United States Commissioner — Cad. J. Pride. 

Trial Justice— J. J. Waters. 

Photographers— Morley Brothers. 

Librarian— Miss Lilian Jones. 

City Clerk and Treasurer— J. D. Scruggs, 

Postmaster— Cad. J. Pride. 

Carolina Hotel— A. H. Greene, Proprietor. 

Restaurant— J. N. McElwee & Co. 

Barber— J. H. Toole. 

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